Coquette Quote by Josh Billings Download Open image “Fortune is like a coquette; if you don't run after her, she will run after you.” — Josh Billings ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Coquette Fortune Ifs Running Wealth
Fortune converts everything to the advantage of her favorites. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
They say fortune is a woman and capricious. But sometimes she is a good woman, and gives to those who merit. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Fortune's a right whore. If she give ought, she deals it in small parcels, that she may take away all at one swoop. — John Webster Copy Share Image
Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of Chance. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away. — Charles V Copy Share Image
Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
But Fortune, who never forgets her duty, turns her wheel suddenly. — Marie de France Copy Share Image
It is often the easiest move that completes the game. Fortune is like the lady whom a lover carried off from all his rivals… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
It ain't because lovers are so sensitive that they quarrel so often; it is because there is so much fun n the making up. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Man was created a little lower than the angels and has been getting a little lower ever since. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
There is only one good substitute for the endearments of a sister, and that is the endearments of some other fellow's sister. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Life is a grindstone, and whether it grinds a man down or polishes him up depends on the stuff he's made of. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Its harly my dog A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Unless we put heart and soul into our labor we but brutify our actions. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
A secret ceases to be a secret if it is once confided - it is like a dollar bill, once broken, it is never… — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
If a man is right, he can't be too radical; if he is wrong, he can't be too conservative. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
As a general rule, if you want to get at the truth - hear both sides and believe neither. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Economy is a savings-bank, into which men drop pennies, and get dollars in return. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Self-made men are most always apt to be a little too proud of the job. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
It is a species of coquetry to make a parade of never practising it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Coquetry is the essential characteristic, and the prevalent humor of women; but they do not all practice it, because the coquetry of some is… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Women find it far more difficult to overcome their inclination to coquetry than to overcome their love. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
dont undress my love you might find a mannequin dont undress the mannequin you might find love. shes long ago forgotten me. hes trying… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
He who wins a thousand common hearts is entitled to some renown; but he who keeps undisputed sway over the heart of a coquette… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
In the School of Coquettes Madam Rose is a scholar,-O, they fish with all nets In the School of Coquettes! When her brooch she… — Henry Austin Dobson Copy Share Image
A coquette is a young lady of more beauty than sense, more accomplishments than learning, more charms not person than graces of mind, more… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Coquettes are, but too rare. It is a career that requires great abilities, infinite pains, a gay and airy spirit. 'T is the coquette… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
A modern writer likens coquettes to those hunters who do not eat the game which they have successfully pursued. — Mary Elizabeth Braddon Copy Share Image
Wit resembles a coquette; those who the most eagerly run after it are the least favored. — Joseph Chenier Copy Share Image
